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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (52792)	7/10/2002 10:32:50 AM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 82486

I'm not sure why we should expect them to be saints. Well, color me old fashioned, but I like to think that professionals have professional ethics if not business ethics. Our institutions that provide professional certification are a key in what makes our system work. When priests abuse children and accountants look the other way, I think that's a bigger problem than when business people scam. I also think it's a problem when politicians do it, but I've given up on them. We can't afford to give up on our professionals. From a more practical perspective, we really can't afford to keep professionals in line only with criminal penalties. We rely on the AMA to do it's thing. The SEC relies a lot on self regulation by the industry as do other regulators. We may need to tweak that mix a bit, but we sure can't have the regulators go it alone. It would bankrupt us.